Information Technology, Workplace Organization and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence

By T. Bresnahan, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lorin M. Hitt. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Media Technology, Economics & Operations Research

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GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (2023, background): “The realization of general purpose technologies’ full potential requires extensive co-invention (Bresnahan and Trajtenberg, 1995; Bresnahan et al., 1996, 2002; Lipsey et al., 2005; Dixon et al., 2021), a costly and time-consuming process involving the discovery of new business procedures (David,…”
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, background): “Although there are clearly several variables at work, consensus is broad that this can be ascribed to an acceleration in capital-skill complementarity, driven by the adoption of computers and information technology (Krueger, 1993; Autor et al., 1998; Bresnahan et al., 2002).”
Corporate taxes and the location of intangible assets within multinational firms (2011, background): “high‐skilled workers who represent part of the decisive corporate human capital (see e.g. Bresnahan et al., 2002 ).”
The Productivity of Information Technology Investments: New Evidence from IT Labor Data (2012, background): “…with prior work that suggested a signiﬁcant component of IT-related productivity contribution is slow changing IT-related organizational practices (Bresnahan et al. 2002) and that much of the “excess return” attributed to IT is due to IT-related intangible assets (Brynjolfsson et al. 2002).”
Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey (2020, neutral): “Other notable works using CITDB include Bresnahan et al. (2002), Forman et al. (2002), Brynjolfsson and Hitt (2003), Forman et al. (2009), Mahr (2010), Bloom et al. (2012), Forman et al. (2012), and Kretschmer et al. (2012).”
Work design influences: A synthesis of multilevel factors that affect the design of jobs (2017, background): “For example, managers might be motivated to foster high-quality work design when they have implicit theories about employees as being active organisms who strive for development (Theory Y; McGregor, 1960) are guided by long-term organizational development goals (Clegg & Fitter, 1981), or when they c”
The impact of enterprise systems on corporate performance: A study of ERP, SCM, and CRM system implementations (2007, background): “However, the other three VRIN criteria are somewhat questionable when applied to software systems that can be readily purchased (Carr (2003)). Nevertheless, the complex and expensive implementation process may serve as a barrier to competitors (Rumelt (1984), Weill and Broadbent (1998)).”